On 8 May 2002, Italian newspaper LIBERO reported:
While leaders of various political parties and labour unions were busy putting up slogans to prepare for the celebration of liberation day, a young delicate and pure Chinese lady sat in lotus posture on the ground, oriental style in front of the Chinese Embassy in Rome from the afternoon of 25 April to the morning of next day. Two years ago, Li Liyou was put in jail for 50 days. Her husband has been kept in China’s most severe labour-reform camp in the past two years simply because he unfolded a banner at the Tiananmen Square. She behaved in accordance to her belief. [..] So she left her house for the Embassy by car and sat at the sidewalk. She did not bring a quilt; not even a piece of biscuit to allay her hunger!
Li Liyou is a Falun Gong practitioner. By western standards, Falun Gong is a harmless doctrine. One gets balance in the heart through meditation. It has delicate and slow movements - a cross between dance and martial arts. Its key beliefs are lenience, peace and honesty [Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance - ed. note]. Falun Gong holds that whatever the reason is, no violence should ever be employed. However in China, the government considered it to be [slanderous term omitted]. If Falun Gong continues to exist, the Chinese government’s iron control of people’s minds would be harmed. Falun Gong practitioners said that there have been more than 400 persons killed, yet no exact number can be provided. Information even indicates that over 2000 people have been persecuted to death and hundreds of thousands have been sent to labour-reform camps. The large-scale arrest in last month had sent 2500 persons to labour-reform camps, including Li Liyou’s relatives.
Translated from http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/7/9/33007.html
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